To the best of my knowledge, the ethernet version contains software which prevents the sharing media files over a (wide area) network, but the USB version doesn't.
I read Gizmodo's article on the WD DRM and according to that it's not DRM built into the hardware... just some overly restrictive software that comes with the drive.
I read Gizmodo's article on the WD DRM and according to that it's not DRM built into the hardware... just some overly restrictive software that comes with the drive.
I read it too but the problem is that the average user is going to install the software because it came with it and their going to run into issues. It's not up to a hardware company to police their customers and limit their use of their content. Just make the damn drive!
On a local network it works fine but their selling it as a cheap NAS and say your on vacation with your laptop and want to access and video or music file on the drive the software won't let you.
I would actually suggest just making a cheap media server with Windows server (easy way) or even cheaper Linux (more complicated). Then you can do what you want and share what you want with who you want and you don't have some hardware company saying this may or may not be legally yours so we just won't let you use it.
I would actually suggest just making a cheap media server with Windows server (easy way) or even cheaper Linux (more complicated). Then you can do what you want and share what you want with who you want and you don't have some hardware company saying this may or may not be legally yours so we just won't let you use it.
